Communicative pressures influence the use of adverbs as well as adjectives: Evidence from a crosslinguistic investigation

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0173" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0173</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0173" target="_blank" >10.1515/lingvan-2024-0173</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Communicative pressures influence the use of adverbs as well as adjectives: Evidence from a crosslinguistic investigation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

It has long been observed in previous research that language production is under the influence of communicative pressures. Language users tend to act efficiently and to structure their utterances to optimize communicative properties. In this study, based on the communicative efficiency hypothesis, we tested two predictions about the use of adjectives and adverbs, respectively. Specifically, it is predicted that pre-nominal languages should use modifying adjectives at a higher rate, and pre-verbal languages should use modifying adverbs at a higher rate. The predicted correlation about adjective ordering was indeed observed. However, contrary to the second prediction, our results indicate no significant difference in the use of adverbs between pre-and post-verbal languages. We argued that the different performances of adjectives and adverbs lie in the fact that event reference is more complex than entity reference: language users rely not only on adverbs, but also on objects in the events denoted by verbs (V). We revised our prediction by considering the relative placement of objects (O), and found that VO languages that favor pre-verbal adverbs do exhibit higher rates of modification.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Communicative pressures influence the use of adverbs as well as adjectives: Evidence from a crosslinguistic investigation

Popis výsledku anglicky

It has long been observed in previous research that language production is under the influence of communicative pressures. Language users tend to act efficiently and to structure their utterances to optimize communicative properties. In this study, based on the communicative efficiency hypothesis, we tested two predictions about the use of adjectives and adverbs, respectively. Specifically, it is predicted that pre-nominal languages should use modifying adjectives at a higher rate, and pre-verbal languages should use modifying adverbs at a higher rate. The predicted correlation about adjective ordering was indeed observed. However, contrary to the second prediction, our results indicate no significant difference in the use of adverbs between pre-and post-verbal languages. We argued that the different performances of adjectives and adverbs lie in the fact that event reference is more complex than entity reference: language users rely not only on adverbs, but also on objects in the events denoted by verbs (V). We revised our prediction by considering the relative placement of objects (O), and found that VO languages that favor pre-verbal adverbs do exhibit higher rates of modification.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Linguistics Vanguard

ISSN

2199-174X

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

11

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2025

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

1-9

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105011625222